Harriet Wistrich

Harriet Katherine Wistrich (born 1960) is an English solicitor and radical feminist who specialises in human-rights cases, particularly cases involving women who have been sexually assaulted or who have killed their violent partners. She works for Birnberg Pierce & Partners in London. She was Liberty's Human Rights Lawyer of the Year in 2014. Wistrich is co-founder of Justice for Women, the feminist law-reform group, and founding director of the Centre for Women's Justice. She has written for The Guardian and is the editor, with her partner Julie Bindel, of The Map of My Life: The Story of Emma Humphreys (2003). Background Family Harriet Katherine Wistrich was born in Hampstead to Enid (d. 2020) and Ernest Wistrich (d. 2015), both secular Jews, who wed in 1950. Enid became Reader in Politics and Public Administration at Middlesex University (1979–1995) and thereafter Visiting Professor of Political Science. She had been a Labour councillor (for the Priory ward of Camden Council 1965–1968 and 1971–1974) and chair of the Greater London Council Film Viewing Board in the 1970s. Her publications include "I don't mind the sex, it's the violence": Film Censorship Explored (1979), The Politics of Transport (1983), and, with David M. Smith, Devolution and Localism in England (2014).